Feminist theater is a genre that deals with recognizing the diversity of women and recognition of women’s persistence to equality in a world of social and cultural male dominance. In the early 1900’s, feminist theater was a major topic in relation to the growing women’s rights movements, especially relating to suffrage and other significant political issues. Women used plays as platforms to speak up about their experiences with inequality, justice, and the law. A major focus was writing about the complex relationships between women, which is something Trifles is based upon. Around the 1950’s, decades after the first wave of feminist theater began and around when the play was written, the genre took on many issues facing women and really set the nation for equality between the sexes. I believe Trifles is a feminist play because the main female characters have characteristics that cause them to sympathize with Mrs. Wright. The abuse and loneliness caused by her marriage took a toll on her, and those two women realize later that she did not deserve this to happen to her. They unite as women and make sure that Mr. Wright doesn’t get the “justice” that the men think he needs. The three men investigating dismiss the importance of women’s roles in the households and think nothing more than that wives are made to cook and clean. I think that because these women understand the reasoning behind the murder and act based on that reasoning, it bonds them based on their gender. For these reasons, I see this play as feminist.